Matt Galloway
The Campus Ledger, JCCC’s student newspaper, won first place in an onsite contest sponsored by the Associated Collegiate Press. The Best of Show award was given for overall excellence in newspapers at twoyear schools at the ACP’s National College Journalism Workshops. The newspaper was also named a Gold Medalist by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. Jennifer Harris was the editor in 2008-2009; Anne Christiansen-Bullers is the adviser. Vince Medellin, Ledger cartoonist, was named one of three finalists in a national cartooning contest sponsored by the Associated Collegiate Press and Universal Press Syndicate. The strips were judged on reader impact, community importance, artistic quality and originality and clarity of message. The Ledger was also named a Pacemaker finalist by the Associated Collegiate Press, one of 10 selected nationwide from two-year schools. Students from The Campus Ledger were also honored by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association with an unprecedented 16 certificates in its Gold Circle Awards contest. The awards, honoring
individual work by college journalists and designers across the United States, included six first-place accolades. The contest is judged without divisions, so Ledger students were judged alongside others from both two-year and four-year schools. The national contest historically draws more than 8,000 entries from more than 1,700 CSPA-member schools. In April at the Kansas Associated Collegiate Press Association conference, The Campus Ledger was awarded both the gold medal, reflecting overall excellence, and the All-Kansas Award, reflecting the best of show in the two-year school division. Staff members received 40 individual awards, and 20092010 editor Matt Galloway was first runner-up as Journalist of the Year. JCAV, a student-produced TV news and magazine program, produced 10 JCAV news episodes, seven JCAV Campus Updates and five Cavalier sports reports – live cable shows of sports events. JCAV students won five 2010 Kansas Association of Broadcasters student awards, competing against all public and private colleges and universities in Kansas.
During the 2009-2010 academic year, JCCC also introduced a new Internet radio station, ECAV. Student Matt Katzenmeier and his partner, Amanda Beeler, advanced to the final round of the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship audition in January 2010, part of The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for Region 5, hosted at JCCC. Student Megan Walkowiak represented JCCC on the AllKansas Academic Team, sponsored by the Phi Theta Kappa international honor society, the Kansas Association of Community College Trustees and the Kansas Council of Community College Presidents. A four-student team from JCCC’s entrepreneurship program won first prize in the Business Ethics Case hosted by Kansas State University’s Students in Free Enterprise organization in February 2010. The students were Kerop Ferandez, Jennifer Meskie, Rebecca McCully and Daman Tsai. JCCC competed against four-year schools, winning $2,000. Barbara Millard, assistant professor, entrepreneurship, is the team sponsor.
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